Juno AWVR Data: Advanced Water Vapor Radiometer Troposphere Calibrations

High-rate data collected by the Advanced Water Vapor Radiometer at NASA's Goldstone Complex supports the Juno Gravity Science Investigation. This supplemental dataset contains path delay, path delay rate, calibration values, and frequency residuals organized by Juno perijove events. Dustin Buccino of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory compiled the archive in August 2021 to accompany a submission to the Radio Science journal.

Use Cases

• Calibrating tropospheric path delay for Juno gravity science signals based on AWVR measurements.
• Analyzing Allan deviations for tropospheric scintillation during specific perijove events.
• Validating Earth-based atmospheric calibration models for deep-space radio science investigations.

Strengths

• Data originates from the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Complex, a primary facility for deep-space communication.
• Dataset is structured by specific Juno mission perijove events (PJ-03, PJ-06, PJ-08).
• Accompanies a peer-reviewed journal submission to Radio Science, indicating scientific review.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Collection Method

Collected by the Advanced Water Vapor Radiometer (AWVR) instrument.

Geography

Goldstone Complex, California, USA